

Write your password back in, hit ok, and then close all the preferences, and close mac mail. Weirdly, your password might have gone blank. Go into preferences, email accounts, and find your hotmail account.ĭouble click the email account and you get a dialogue with your name, email address, and password. The options given on the web all seem to not work. And, seemingly, there's no easy way to fix it.


So, if you are using Mac Mail, and you have a hotmail account (and don't have 2-factor authentication turned on), you may occasionally get disconnected from your hotmail account and it won't reconnect or download messages, and will hit you with the error message "unable to verify account or password". Searched the internet for an answer and all the answers that have been provided on multiple sites didn't work. So I have had this problem numerous times, and just had it again.
